Stefan Thomas Possony (March 15, 1913 – April 26, 1995) was an Austrian-born US economist and military strategist and a Senior Fellow and director of International Studies at the Hoover Institution.
Prior to emigrating there, in August 1938, he had been one of the participants in the Colloque Walter Lippmann, which aimed strive for the restoration of classical liberal ideas, which had seen a decline in interest after the 1920s and 1930s.
After France was occupied by the German Army in World War II, Possony, who had been on the Gestapo's wanted list for opposing Austria's annexation by Germany, was taken into custody but was subsequently able to escape.
He later became a professor at Georgetown University and directed graduate studies for a number of students including active service military officers while he remained a consultant to the Pentagon.
She had been a survivor of Stalin's prison camps and had fled to the Soviet Union from Germany with her father and his family, who, as both a Jew and a Communist, had little likelihood of survival.
After Stefan had a stroke in 1985, Regina Golbinder Possony singlehandedly kept him alive for ten years when no one expected him to live a single month longer.